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First of all, a note regarding my previous post: it wasn't my intention to make anyone feel guilty about not reading/commenting on my journal. I am not THAT self-absorbed and self-important, LOL. I do understand people have other things to do sometimes.;) I am also fully aware my journal isn't always the most fascinating read you could possibly find out there.:P The purpose of that post was mostly looking for suggestions, as in: why don't you friend this or that person/community, they talk a lot about XYZ, and there's always an interesting discussion going on in the comments etc. Having people respond to my posts is only one part of it - mostly I want to see posts on my flist that I feel like responding to, more than about once a week.:D

Also, yay for holiday weekends, even if you don't care much for said holiday. Friday after Thanksgiving is always off at my workplace, and we had early close on Wednesday - so it was really a two-day working week for me, considering the fact that I had so much unused vacation time left I got rid of all the "early closes". I mean, what's the point of coming to work for half a day if you can stay home while using only 4 vacation hours? :)

I'll go see my parents on Sunday, since that's when my sister & brother-in-law will be there (they're celebrating with her in-laws today, as usual). So today I'm on my own. Which is perfect. I finally cleaned the place (including the floors and the refrigerator, yay!), and now I continue my mission of Finding New LJ-Friends.:) It's exciting and weird and a little awkward... but I'm making progress, I'll have you know. There are plenty of fascinating people out there who post a lot - it just takes some time to fish them out from among all the dead and half-dead journals. And the flocked ones that you don't really know if you want to friend, because, well... they're flocked. So you have no idea what they're all about. Which is why I am keeping mine open. So that if I friend someone, they can make an informed decision as to whether they want to friend me back or not. I do realize it is a bit risky, and perhaps more than a bit exhibitionistic, to keep a personal journal open - but how else do you meet new people?... And of course, it's ten times easier than being open about yourself in "real life", in a room full of strangers. I don't approach strangers at parties (or didn't, when I still went to parties... lol). I do, however, approach strangers online, and I haven't regretted that so far. Sheer luck, perhaps. Or my unfailing Piscean intuition, if you prefer.;)